HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3714        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3225

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to bridge safety on Massachusetts highways..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Chapter 81 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding after Section 18 the following new section:

“Section 18A: Where all Massachusetts owned highways intersect, by crossing over, another roadway or highway in the Commonwealth a protective fence will be installed on the bridge, created by the cross over, for the protection of persons located on the side of said bridge.  The fence shall be of requisite height to prevent any persons located next to it from falling from the above bridge onto the below located roadway.

SECTION 2.  This act shall be known as the Andrew S. Castonguay Act.